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A. JONES. INDEX-{FAG Patented Aprjlll, 1876.

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Specification forming part of LettersPntent No. fl3i3,b5, dated April 11, 1876; eppliceticn filed I January 14, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, ANDREW J. JONES, of Giucinueti, Hamilton county, Ohio, have invented anew and useful Uonstructionoi'lndcx- Tags for Blank Books, 360., of which the following is u specification:

My invention relates to an improved construction and arrangement of the lettered tags or cars, which it is customary to attach to the edges of the index'lenres oi the larger kinds of blank books, such as ledgers, recorddiatcly below and above it ini 'the alphabetical or other series, and being, uslbefore stated, thus made to grasp umuch larger portion of the leaf-edge, so as to distrihute the strain thereon, and to avoid. the shearing and rendin'g action upon the leaves incident to the use of the customary tags.

Furthermore, index-ts s nudeyon my plan,- diiier from the common j-obversely-lettered tags in that the chsractensfjinstehd of being placed at mid-height of the projecti g portion,

are applied near the hottou of thetag on its front side, and near. the top of the teg on its rear side.- l ,In the preferred formof my improiqement, that portion of each tug whichprojectsbe' yond the leaf to which it is nttaehed',\iiicloses a filling strip-orv stiiiener of emu-stem 'or al, firmly pasted orfglued within it. i 1 i In the accompanying drewin Fig'urc 1 is a. front view of a printed hlenk forfconversion into index-tags on my plan. =1 ig12 shdwsthe some in its crimped conditirgn. Fi gs. 3 and 4 are .1 views ofsuch s blank in its vfolded and stiffened condition. Fig. 5 shows the component tags produced; by severing such blank tranvers'iiy, at the dotted lines, Fig. 1. Fig. 6 and 7 are perspective views of a portion of a. hookinruishcd with my improved tags, and being ope mi from the'front and rear respectively. .hig. 8

is an enlarged transverse section of one of ngy regs, and a portion of the attached reef. 2-

a may represent a portion of a blank sets, having customary set of index-lcsvemtb. c is a piece of leather or other suitable materiel, imprinted with a. number of consecutive letters, or other characters in the represented duplh cate arrangement. the characters being so disposed as to he near-tho bottom edges oi their respective tn gs on their front sides, and near the top edges of said tags on their rear sides. This arrangement of the lettering euables the overlapping of the consecutive tags, without obscuring one anotheJs characters Thisreletion of the tags is shown in Figs. 6 and 7. e isn strip of card, stifipeper, another tough and sufiiciently rigid material, which being glued or pasted firmly within the criingied. fold f of the blank, discharges the several useful functions of gaging the tags in'their application to their respective l6tVBS, 0f stiii ening the projection, portion f, and of causing such portion to he'flush with the portion 9*,

which is gummed or glued to the leaf.

Index-tugs'thus constructed may be menu: factored as a spec'nlty, and become an article of merchandise, in the strip form (see Figs. 3 and 4) and'i form, (see Fig. 5.)-

The operation. of

to take strips of lost? er or other suitable msterial of double the dth of the fiuished'teg,

and of length suifir-ie t to receive the whole.

series of characters, b any fractional portion of them, and iuteue ing uul'ettered spaces, substantially as repr sented,

The location of theicharaoters is such that they 0 copy the lowerg8 front portions, and the upper lresr portions f the finished tfigS,h8 seen in Figs. 3th 7,ii,iclusive.

Any esire num er? of strips being pm- \the separated or complete nui'ecture is, preferably,-

pared, am in Fig. 1, are folded, as in Fig. and have fiheir fillings glued fast; in said fold, as in Figs. 3 and 4. V

The inner surfaces of the Wings 9 being then minted with mucilage, and the strips separated transversely at the dotted lines, Fig. 1, the tags are reaiiy for attachment to their apprugriate leaves at any time.

Large numbers of tags may be thus can strueted, and be put away in packages-ea an article of merchandise. Also, strigs, such as Fig. 3, may be prepared and sold to the trade and others.

i am aware that it has been customary to insert re-enforcing strips or @tiifening pieeee in. index-tags but such additions have, in the set my hand.

arrangements.heretofore employed, only increased or aggravated the shearing action of the eeneeeutive Bags upon the paper, ineteeid of as in my zzsrwgement contributing an ad- (litional pmteetien against web actiem.

I claim as new of my invention- A series ef indemtags, d, an farmed, inseribecLemi arranged upon the infiex-ieaves of abool; as to overlay, without smearing, the ehameizem upon the super and subjaeemfi tags, substantially as sets forth.

In teetimony if which invention, ii hereunto A J. JONES,

Attest:

GEO. H, KNIGHT,

HENRY H. Tlmmmn 

